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Hi I'm Rose, the Museum's Visit Us web editor. I hope you enjoy our blog about what's new and happening at the Natural History Museum. I will keep you posted as often as I can on events, exhibitions, new developments, momentous moments, and more.Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:40:58 GMTJive SBS 4.5.6.0 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/)2010-06-11T10:40:58ZThe Wildlife Garden's weekend event will get you all in a flaphttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/whats-new/2010/06/11/the-wildlife-gardens-weekend-event-will-get-you-all-in-a-flap
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:685d0645-244c-4f3d-bfe2-c15c3bfee0c0] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p><a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-1296-3427/moorhen-island-600.jpg"><img alt="moorhen-island-600.jpg" class="jive-image-thumbnail jive-image" height="315" src="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-1296-3427/421-315/moorhen-island-600.jpg" style="float: left;" width="421"/></a></p><p>Our Wildlife Garden is taking part once again in London's <strong>Open Garden Squares Weekend</strong> on Saturday and Sunday, 12 and 13 June.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Special treats lined up for visitors include the chance to <strong>meet a bat expert</strong> and to get more acquainted with our family of <strong>moorhens</strong> (left) and the rest of our busy pond community in the garden.</p><p><br/>The Wildlife Garden's freshwater ponds are home to many species of plants and animals. If you're lucky at the weekend, you might spot the little moorhen chicks and azure damselflies competing for attention with the likes of diving beetles and common newts.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Our bat expert, Sean Hanna, will be in the garden both days, revealing lots of fascinating bat facts. Incidentally, did you know that brown long-eared bats, like the cutie in the picture below (click to enlarge), have such good hearing they can hear a ladybird walking on a leaf...<a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-1296-3428/long-eared-bat-600.jpg"><img alt="long-eared-bat-600.jpg" class="jive-image" height="152" src="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-1296-3428/210-152/long-eared-bat-600.jpg" style="float: right;" width="210"/></a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><strong>Garden photographer Sue Snell</strong> will be signing copies of her new book, The Garden at Charleston, on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning at the event. Sue has been photographing this artistic and quintessentially English garden at Charleston, beloved by the Bloomsbury Group, for the last decade,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Other highlights of our weekend event will include <strong>leaf rubbing</strong> and <strong>seed identification activities </strong>and stalls selling refreshments and wild flowers plants. The event is free.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Find out more about the <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/events/programs/nhm/open_garden_squares_weekend_2010.html?date=12.06.2010">Open Garden Squares Weekend event in the Wildlife Garden </a>and visit the official <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.opensquares.org/">Museum page on the Open Garden Squares Weekend website</a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Make the most of this weekend to also visit other rarely-open or little-known London gardens. <strong>This year there are 200 London gardens taking part in Open Garden Squares Weekend. </strong>You can find out <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.opensquares.org/">who's taking part at the Open Garden Squares website</a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><h5>More to follow up online</h5><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Some <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/mammals/bats/">bat secrets are revealed on our website</a>.</p><p><br/>If you're interested in more pond facts, have a look at our <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/british-natural-history/british-habitats/pond/index.html">Freshwater ponds webpage</a></p><p><br/>Browse our visitors'<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/wildlife-garden-whatson/index.html"> Wildlife Garden webpage</a></p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:685d0645-244c-4f3d-bfe2-c15c3bfee0c0] -->british_habitatsbatswildlife_gardenurban_conservationpond_lifemoorhensopen_garden_squares_weekendlondon_public_gardensFri, 11 Jun 2010 10:40:58 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/whats-new/2010/06/11/the-wildlife-gardens-weekend-event-will-get-you-all-in-a-flapRose2010-06-11T10:40:58Z7 years, 2 months ago0http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/whats-new/comment/the-wildlife-gardens-weekend-event-will-get-you-all-in-a-flaphttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/whats-new/feeds/comments?blogPost=1296